... composed at a nom youthful period. Mr George Meredith wrote The Ordeal of Richard Feverel before he was thirty-one. Mr Thomas Hardy haa never dose anything better than Far from the Madding Crowd, published when be was thirty-four. At twenty-four Mr ...

... leading journal at Christmas. It will he very difficult to replace him. A story, entitled The Return of the Native, by Mr Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Madding Crowd, will be begun in the January manlier of BJr•aria. The scenes will chiefly be ...

... include talks with President Harrison, Mark Twain, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W. 1). Howells, J. A. Fronde, Thomas Hardy, Cardinal Manning, &c. The book, for which Mr Grant Allen has written a smart preface, is the first of its kind, will be ...

... Forfarshire, a correspondent writes to the Scotsman that there is at present 'residing in the West Port a veteran eased Thomas Hardy, who served in Nelson's ship the great sea-fight,and who also took part asou of the crew of the Shannon, in the memorable ...

... There was no return for her from the step she had taken, and she would have to begin her life anew. LOVE AFFAIRS. The Rev. Thomas Hardy, in The Love Affairs of Some Famous Men, gives incidentally three little-known anecdotes about Pusey, Manning, and Kingsley ...

... James Copeland, Wm. Archibald, Cumberland Logan, James Reid, Archibald Cockburn, Douglas M'Donald, Harry Thomson, Robert Hardy, Thomas Marshall. :lnd Attenda,oe—Girls--Catherine Bowman, Minnie Borland, Elizabeth Marshall, Bella Amos, Agnes Noble, Janet Drummond ...

... rolutue of short stories .y Mr. Thomas Hardy. Most 31 these have appearea serially, while Ar. Hardy has been writing his novels, but have never bes collected. 'The plan is to do this now, so adding another book to the Hardy library. His followers, knowing ...

... words, that be is human. Mr. Thomas Hardy has thoughts of collecting his unpublished short stories into another volume; or perhaps it would be more correct to say that he is being asked to take up this task. So far Mr. Hardy has publishei three volumes ...

... than a year's royalties on his books. It was owing to a happy coincidence connected with the name of his second book that Thomas Hardy obtained almost his earliest encouragement. Under the Greenwood Tree was lying neglected on a second-hand bookstall when ...

... large circulations. Mr. Gladstone was much disappointed at the comparatively small sale of hie great edition of Butler. Mr. Thomas Hardy is paying his usual early summer visit to London. He is said to have made considerable progress during the winter and spring ...

... Mr. Howells opened the ball by obeesing Tolstoi. He did not, however, stop them, but miming to England picked out Mr. Thomas Hardy as our greatest worker in ficti on , an d nes t to him Mr. George Moore. In the latter choice he would not, we imagine ...

... v 01.,, lb frd ; Lord Cockburn'. Ifieweaire, 10 es. Cecil ladenen, John Aitken, 100., Hansel Tern fr, James Anderson, Thomas Hardy entered for Coe mateb. • The grange rimming of Cecil Anderson, et tailed him go ahead - Xi he had put a distance of se ...